Early Campaigns Flashcards
1947- To Secure These Rights
A report by Truman that identified 6 areas of problems, including lynching, voting rights and police brutality. He said that it was the governments job to promote civil rights.
Sweatt v Painter 1950
Law school forced to accept Sweatt as a student.
Morgan v Virginia 1946
Segregation on interstate buses was illegal.
Brown v Topeka 1954
Segregation in schools was ruled illegal and ‘separate but equal was overturned’
Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955-56
Response to Rosa Parks being arrested, MIA decided to boycott buses until they were desegregated which lost them 65% of their income.
Browder V Gayle 1956
The legal case that outlawed segregation on the buses.
Brown II 1955
Desegregation should occur with ‘all deliberate speed’
Little Rock 1957
Faubus order the national guard to prevent the 9 students from entering the school, Eisenhower intervened and ordered the NG to protect the students. Faubus issued a law allowing schools to close rather than desegregate.
Freedom Rides 1961
Sought to test the rulings, they were firebombed by the KKK at Anniston and Chief ‘Bull’ Connor refused to protect the riders.
Cooper V Aaron 1958
Challenged Faubus’ law to close schools rather than desegregate.
Greensboro Sit Ins 1960
Students sat in Woolworths at the lunch counter, more came each day forcing it to close. Within a month they were happening in 6 more states and by 1961, 70,000 people had taken part.
James Meredith 1962
Barnett refused to let Meredith enrol in Mississippi uni, Supreme Court and Kennedy backed Meredith. Kennedy sent troops to make sure Meredith enrolled, riots broke out which resulted in 2 people being killed.
Albany 1961-62
Police chief Laurie Pritchett studied protesters strategies and adapted an approach to deal with them that gave them no media attention. Radical protesters got fed up of peaceful protest.
